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A Study Of Paul Baumer In "All Quiet On The Western Front"
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A Study Of Paul Baumer In "All Quiet On The Western Front" All Quiet On The Western Front is a novel which gives an account of a generation destroyed by war, even of those who did not take part in the fighting itself. The novel is written in a first-person view through the eyes of a German named Paul Baumer. Paul Baumer is a sensitive twenty-year-old who has written poems and a play (entitled Saul). Baumer reaches adulthood during three years service as a soldier in the Second Company of the German army in the First World War. His loss of innocence during this period is the focus of the author's anti-war sentiment. Baumer must learn to sway with violent forces in order to remain firmly in reality and to survive the buffeting that besets the German camp. His thought processes are continually pulled back and forth, from the romantic notions of...
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